Now you know were the Aid money goes too..

[tommy.irene]

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[tommy.irene]

It only cost £45,000,000.. that would keep some hospitals open in the UK. 

[bankhaunter]

It cost each person in India a little less than 0.5p per week.

[tommy.irene]

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It cost each person in India a little less than 0.5p per week.

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Its UK money, sent to help the poor ..

[bankhaunter]

Support worth about £200m ($319m) will be phased out between now and 2015

Giving his reaction, India's foreign minister Salman Khurshid said: "Aid is the past and trade is the future."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583

[spawnjohnuk]

and they intend to start trading on mars ? he has a good point though

[rednoise2001]

I bet the millions of Indian nationals who are starving and suffering from lack of food and medicines are proud as punch today.

[upthecreekyetagain]

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I bet the millions of Indian nationals who are starving and suffering from lack of food and medicines are proud as punch today.

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Spent on food that £55m would have provided less than 10p worth of food for every person suffering from malnutrition in India.

There is no way that the emerging economies can get to a position where they can feed and care for all their people without taking a risk and investing in industries and technologies which may or may not prove to be profitable and in demand from other nations at some time in the future. 

If the UK had spent all their resources on caring for its population during the industrial revolution we would still be a mainly agricultural economy and in a far worse an economic position than we are now and probably without anywhere near the resources we have to care for those in need.

The difference with countries like India is that there are developed nations with enough compassion to want to help the ordinary people in those countries whereas when Britain was developing there was no one to care.

[rednoise2001]

I`m sure the poor of India would agree with your point.

"I`m alright Jack"

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@rednoise2001 wrote:

I`m sure the poor of India would agree with your point.

"I`m alright Jack"

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I doubt they would but their descendants well may.

"i'm alright Jack" - sums up perfectly those that begrudge giving aid to those worse off than themselves.

[tommy.irene]

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@rednoise2001 wrote:

I`m sure the poor of India would agree with your point.

"I`m alright Jack"

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I doubt they would but their descendants well may.

"i'm alright Jack" - sums up perfectly those that begrudge giving aid to those worse off than themselves.

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But the aid isnt going to the people you want it to go too.. its buying Guns and Tanks..

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@tommy.irene wrote:

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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

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@rednoise2001 wrote:

I`m sure the poor of India would agree with your point.

"I`m alright Jack"

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I doubt they would but their descendants well may.

"i'm alright Jack" - sums up perfectly those that begrudge giving aid to those worse off than themselves.

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But the aid isnt going to the people you want it to go too.. its buying Guns and Tanks..

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Why would they need the aid to buy guns and tanks - they have enough for that already?

[tommy.irene]

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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

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@tommy.irene wrote:

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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

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@rednoise2001 wrote:

I`m sure the poor of India would agree with your point.

"I`m alright Jack"

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I doubt they would but their descendants well may.

"i'm alright Jack" - sums up perfectly those that begrudge giving aid to those worse off than themselves.

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But the aid isnt going to the people you want it to go too.. its buying Guns and Tanks..

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Why would they need the aid to buy guns and tanks - they have enough for that already?

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Ok then..You tell me were the money is going too..

[blugg_bug]

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@tommy.irene wrote:

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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

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@tommy.irene wrote:

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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

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@rednoise2001 wrote:

I`m sure the poor of India would agree with your point.

"I`m alright Jack"

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I doubt they would but their descendants well may.

"i'm alright Jack" - sums up perfectly those that begrudge giving aid to those worse off than themselves.

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But the aid isnt going to the people you want it to go too.. its buying Guns and Tanks..

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Why would they need the aid to buy guns and tanks - they have enough for that already?

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Ok then..You tell me were the money is going too..

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Why just India. A recent holiday to the U.S. and a city of homeless within a city.. That's a little confusing

[tommy.irene]

How your money is squandered on foreign aid 

'Bad value': The former dean of education at Delhi University, Professor Anil Sadgopal, dismissed DfID's claims as nonsense

The Education For All programme in India was hailed by our Government as an inspiring         example of the effectiveness of Britain’s foreign aid budget. 

As £388 million of taxpayers’ money was poured into the grandly titled scheme aimed at improving Indian schools, the Department for International Development (DfID) trumpeted its success.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255838/How-money-squandered-foreign-aid.html#ixzz2jtdHJRTV 

[tommy.irene]

If India doesn't want our aid, stop it now, Cameron told after country labels £280m-a-year donations as 'peanuts'

David Cameron was under intense pressure last night to slash the £1billion in aid Britain gives to India after the country said it no longer wanted the money.

India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said the booming country should 'voluntarily' give up the £280million a year it receives from Britain.

He told the Indian parliament: 'We do not require the aid. It is a peanut in our total development spending.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096628/British-foreign-aid-India-tells-Britain-dont-need-pe... 

[upthecreekyetagain]

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Ok then..You tell me were the money is going too..

Here's a few projects funded by UK aid - some completed, some ongoing - no mention of tanks ???

SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN II (UNIVERSAL ELEMENTARY EDUCATION) - Improve the quality of elementary education for all children.

BIHAR NUTRITION AND HEALTH SECTOR SUPPORT - Increased access to better quality health nutrition and water and sanitation services for underserved groups

REPRODUCTIVE AND CHILD HEALTH PROGRAMME PHASE II - Disparities in access and use of essential reproductive and child health services reduced.

MP HEALTH SECTOR SUPPORT - Increased use of quality health nutrition and sanitation services by the poor

NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL PROGRAMME III - To achieve the National AIDS Control Programme's strategic objective of achieving behaviour change through scaling up the prevention of new infections in high risk groups (HRG) and general population; and increased care support and treatment of people living with HIV.

ORISSA HEALTH SECTOR SUPPORT - Increased use of quality health nutrition and sanitation services by the poor

WEST BENGAL - HEALTH SECTOR SUPPORT - Enhanced and equitable utilisation of quality health services by the poorest and those in great need.

WEST BENGAL : KOLKATA URBAN SERVICES FOR THE POOR - Improved quality of life and opportunity for 2.4 million poor people in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA)

DFID UNICEF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN INDIA - ENHANCED GOVERNMENT CAPACITY FOR PLANNING MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION AND COMMUNITY MOBILISATION TO BETTER REALIZE THE RIGHT OF CHILDREN.

SUPPORT PROGRAMME FOR URBAN REFORMS IN BIHAR - Identified ULBs ability to provide urban services and attract private investment significantly enhanced

DFID SUPPORT TO WHO FOR TA & DRUG PROC FOR RNTCP - To help India achieve and maintain TB control targets of at least 70% case detection of new infectious TB cases and at least 85% treatment through improvements in the quality and accessibility of TB services especially for the poor and under-served groups in India.

MADHYA PRADESH URBAN SERVICES FOR THE POOR - Strengthened and pro-poor governance enables affordable and sustainable access to quality services for the urban poor in Madhya Pradesh.

[joe_bloggs*]

I,ve just read this post,after coming from another blog i read,and one of the comments on that blog was :

"when a powerful social group see themselves as inherently superior to another (usually powerless) group, the ‘superior’ group starts to see the ‘inferior’ group as less than human and loses the essential feelings of empathy, sympathy or identification with their suffering. There is a parallel with the bully and his victim. The difference is simply one of degree, not of essential quality."

You see it time and time again on here,if it's not the unemployed or disabled,its immigrants or any other group who the daily mail targets that day,trouble is who will speak up when they come for them?........

[1jeffery53]

the Kochi shipyard in the southern state of Kerala

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With this, India joins a select group of countries capable of building such a vessel.

Other countries capable of building a similar ship are the US, the UK, Russia and France.

Monday's launch of INS Vikrant marks the end of the first phase of its construction.

The ship will be then re-docked for outfitting and further construction.

The ship, which will have a length of 260m (850ft) and a breadth of 60m, has been built at the shipyard in Cochin.

It was designed and manufactured locally, using high grade steel made by a state-owned steel company.

Vice-Admiral RK Dhowan of India's navy has described the launch as the "crowning glory" of the navy's programme to produce vessels on home